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From China Daily: According to Beijing Morning Post, Shen Yongtao, deputy director of Service Quality Supervision Office of the Telecom Administration Bureau under the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), revealed that “Relations of SMS Communication Service Management” (Regulations), China’s first set of SMS regulations, will be officially published recently. Those sending porn SMS at random […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese director Chen Kaige‘s high-profile martial arts film, “The Promise”, has received its final “license” to compete for Best Foreign Film in next year’s Academy Awards. The film’s publicist, Huang Bing, announced that they received the official notification from the Film Bureau yesterday.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China lacks the ability to enforce export controls on technologies used to produce weapons of mass destruction, undermining its claims to be a responsible global power, an influential U.S. research group said on Tuesday. The findings reinforce what analysts say is a feeling in the United States that China is not doing enough […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick delivered a refreshingly candid speech in New York last Wednesday at a gala dinner of the National Committee on US-China Relations. I was expecting the usual self- deluding talk, with nonsense like “US- China relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world […]
Read MoreFrom the Miami Herald: From the Chinese-made Virgin of Guadalupe statues hawked in Mexico City to the bulk carriers loaded with South American copper steaming toward the Chinese port of Quingdao, the ties that bind Latin economies to the rest of the world no longer run just north-south. China’s burgeoning appetite for raw materials and […]
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